Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Do what you will, only do something.

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.